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Date:      Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:06:33 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?
Message-ID:  <52E40B39.6080307@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140125185925.GD67763@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On 1/25/14 10:59 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:41:22AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> On 1/25/14 10:32 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:27:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>> On 1/25/14 10:04 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:36:00AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/25/14, 9:28 AM, John Marino wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/25/2014 18:11, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>>>>>>> Still missing the point.  Git can sit on top of svn.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Other than converting SVN to Git, I don't know anything about that.  It
>>>>>>> would never be done in an official capacity.  Git is not an official
>>>>>>> tool of FreeBSD.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I encourage you to educate yourself then and then review the suggestions
>>>>>> I gave.
>>>>> I encourage you to give a shot at what you are suggesting. git-svn is broken for
>>>>> committers as long as it doesn't properly handle properties.
>>>> Or maybe our requirement for props is broken?
>>>>
>>>> Is $FreeBSD$ *that* important?
>>>>
>>>> -Alfred
>>> There is not only $Freebsd$ but also other props.
>> mergeinfo?
>>
>> I'm wondering because there's huge projects out there not tied down to
>> svn.  It seems to be a problem of our own invention.
>>
>> Having managed the FreeNAS project for a year and exclusively using git
>> we found ZERO use for any svn props.  We just used git and put all the
>> cruft behind us.
>>
>> And we were glad for it!
>>
>> -Alfred
> svn props are used by and for svn, sure if you are not in a svn world you do not
> need the props, see the autoprops set on the repo for more details,
>
> honnestly I do not care the vcs we use, right now it is svn so what ever is
> going to be use on top of it it should be svn compliant and svn needs and uses
> the properties.
>
> regards,
> Bapt
Or you just rip the band aid off and flag day your way into the future.

-Alfred



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